Example sentences of "the [adj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 2 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
| 3 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
| 4 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
| 5 | The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag . |
| 6 | the actual I 'll looking up see if I can see mother Are quakes stronger on the moon than on the earth ? |
| 7 | Like going to sleep by contrasting a bed with a pavement , I sometimes find myself thinking that if the worst comes to the worst I can always earn a living by my hands ; I can scrub , clean , cook and sew ; all you have in the end is your labour . |
| 8 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 9 | If the worst comes to the worst I can do without that . |
| 10 | So what 's the worst I can get , at the end of a telephone session , the worst is that I 'll end up with three appointments . |
| 11 | At the price it is , the sooner I can find a buyer for it the happier I 'll be . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got something , all right , and the sooner I can get rid of it the happier I 'll be . |
| 13 | ‘ The sooner I 'm in that pool again , the happier I 'll be . ’ |
| 14 | The more I can do it , the be the more I we the ha ha ha ha the happier I 'll be . |
| 15 | The sooner I get him out of the hands of that teenage vixen , the happier I shall be ! ’ |
| 16 | The happier you are the happier I will be . |
| 17 | Bernard said , ‘ Ellen , the sooner your friends stop coming round and chattering the happier I will be . ’ |
| 18 | That is much better than the 3,000 I would otherwise have got through , but much worse than the zero I set out to achieve . |
| 19 | The more I can do it , the be the more I we the ha ha ha ha the happier I 'll be . |
| 20 | Three pounds , I 'm doing two signings , one is this Sunday at the Radio Lincolnshire Open Show , I 'll be there on Sunday from two till four signing the Good Old Days Quiz Book , two till four this Sunday at Radio Lincolnshire 's Open Day and on Wednesday December the eighth I 'll be at at Nottingham , and doing a signing there for the Good Old Days Quiz Book , B B C publication . |
| 21 | Now on F oh sorry on Monday the seventh er oh sorry on Friday the fourth I would like you to phone into this this er phone in to head office ask for Publications . |
| 22 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 23 | Say you 're the nearest I can find in the book , Filton I should try . |
| 24 | I think that is the nearest I could get to the orange . |
| 25 | In the first I shall review activity within the Engineering Branch before I took up my post within the MOD . |
| 26 | The first I 'll know , I expect , is when he walks through that door . ’ |
| 27 | The first I would label the ‘ naturalist ’ approach , and the classic British example is the highly influential work of Havelock Ellis , especially his majestic Studies in the Psychology of Sex . |
| 28 | The words happened to be the first I could enunciate . |
| 29 | Michael said to me , the first thing he said to me when I came here , that 's the first I 'd do , knock it down he said , it 's , it 's dangerous it 's not . |
| 30 | You might have a slight problem , because we use the same I 'll I 'll try and get out the cash . |